David Mitchell
Author
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
"A vast, intricate novel that weaves six narratives and spans from 1984 to the 2030s about a secret war between a cult of soul-decanters and a small group of vigilantes called the Night Shift who try to take them down. An up-all-night story that fluently mixes the super-natural, sci-fi, horror, social satire, and hearbreaking realism"--
3) Slade house
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, you'll find the entrance to Slade House: a surreal place where visitors see what they want to see, including some things that should be impossible. Every nine years, the house's residents--an odd brother and sister--extend a unique invitation to someone who's different or lonely: a precocious teenager, a divorced policeman,...
Author
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Written by a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, this is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Parents and family members who never thought they could get inside the head of their autistic loved one at last have a way to break through to the curious, subtle, and complex life within. With disarming honesty and...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
1799, Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor. Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk, has a chance encounter with Orito Aibagawa, the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and midwife to the city's powerful magistrate. The borders between propriety, profit, and pleasure blur until Jacob finds his vision clouded, one rash promise made and then fatefully broken--the consequences of which will extend beyond Jacob's worst imaginings.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
574 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Soho, London, 1967. Folk-rock-psychedelic quartet Utopia Avenue is formed. Guitarist Jasper de Zoet, a shy, half-Dutch public-school musical prodigy, was hearing voices long before he dropped acid. Keyboardist Elf Holloway must defy the prejudices of her bank manager father, her housewife mother, and her age to forge her own career. Bassist Dean Moss cannot, will not, spend his life on the factory floor like everyone else in Gravesend. Band manager...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
431 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, genealogical tables ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Think you know the kings and queens of England? Think again. David Mitchell explores how early England's monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their subjects' destinies, were in reality a bunch of lucky bastards who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they appear today in their portraits. Taking us back to King Arthur (spoiler: he didn't exist), Mitchell tells the founding story of post-Roman England up to the reign of...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 445 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A ravishing, luminous selection of short stories from the prize-winning imagination of A. S. Byatt, drawn from her entire career. Mirrors shatter at the hairdressers when a middle-aged client explodes in rage. Snow dusts the warm body of a princess, honing it into something sharp and frosted. Summer sunshine flickers on the face of a smiling child who may or may not be real. Medusa's Ankles celebrates the very best of A. S. Byatt's short fiction,...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (148 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"To truly know himself, Neo must follow the white rabbit once again into the Matrix ... What he doesn't know is that the Matrix is more dangerous than ever"--Container.
10) Cloud atlas
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (172 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the near future.
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : digital ; 4 /34 in.
Language
English
Description
Two carefree bachelors are on a mission to seek out beautiful women while on their Club Med ski vacation. Bobby, a hilarious jokester, and Jackson, a playboy who thinks he can ski worthy of a championship find themselves in real adventures while they also unexpectedly find themselves.
Author
Publisher
Mitcherton Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xi, 223 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Looking for activities that are fun and also inspire your kids to become curious about science? With 50 amazing experiments, puzzles, code, and ciphers, encourage your child to engage in these fun science activities at home while learning real life science facts and exploring the science behind them! This activity book is filled with hands-on, educational science activities that kids will love to do, like launching a small rocket, building a centrifuge,...
15) 1919: Red mirage
Author
Pub. Date
1970
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
385 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Naoki Higashida wrote The Reason I Jump as a 13-year-old boy. Now, he shares his thoughts and experiences as a 24-year old young man with severe autism. In short, powerful chapters, he explores education, identity, family, society and personal growth. He also allows readers to experience profound moments we take for granted, like the thought-steps necessary for him to register that it's raining outside. Introduced by award-winning author David Mitchell...
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Writer's Map is an atlas of the journeys that our most creative storytellers have made throughout their lives. This collection encompasses not only the maps that appear in their books but also the many maps that have inspired them, the sketches that they used while writing, and others that simply sparked their curiosity" --
18) It follows
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For nineteen-year-old Jay, the fall should be about school, boys and weekends at the lake. Yet, after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter she suddenly finds herself plagued by nightmarish visions; she can't shake the sensation that someone, or something, is following her. As the threat closes in, Jay and her friends must somehow escape the horrors that are only a few steps behind.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sam is a disenchanted 33-year-old who discovers a mysterious woman, Sarah, frolicking in his apartment's swimming pool. When she vanishes, Sam embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind her disappearance, leading him into the murkiest depths of mystery, scandal, and conspiracy in the City of Angels.